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https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1110710/is-a2b2-ab-ap-qquad-a-b-in-mathbbz-a-perfect-square
On MO there seems to be an other opinion:
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/194216/is-a2b2-ab-ap-...

Recently, I lost $60$ points of my reputation because a question was removed. The question wasn't a Spam, it was a simple question of fractions but useful for the OP.
The question was
Determine if $\...

I posted this question which was placed on hold. The only person who has even a hint of interest in this type of question is https://math.stackexchange.com/users/1242/hans-lundmark, the others have no ...

I am unsure on how to improve a question that was put on hold. Specifically, this question. The people that voted to close said that it is off-topic, and "not about mathematics", but I don't see how ...

Is it ok not to accept answer to a question because each of the answers that has been given so far has some points that other answers don't and furthermore all of them are useful to the OP?
Actually ...

I got two seemingly good but contradicting answers to this question about order in bases of vector spaces.
I don't know what to do because they both seem plausible and they do not agree.
What can I ...

Nobody said why they downvoted, which makes for a very negative experience for me.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1027035/what-is-the-most-important-outside-of-mathematics-results-known-to-...

I pretty much started learning Mathematics and I have no clue how TEX works as well. So it is already challenging to learn both at the same time. Also I posted some really easy questions on Complex ...

Apart from a question which indeed required a very long answer, why does Any general hints on how to prove that two functions$\ f(n)$ and$\ g(m_1,m_2,...,m_{28})$ never have a common natural divisor? ...

Some other question was about the importance of knowing mathematics for programmers. I wonder if you think that mathematics will be more or less important for software development in the future. More ...

I recently added a question to stack.exchange and it was quickly put 'on hold'(and for good reason, it needed work). After having several helpful comments and a lot of editing I had thought the issues ...

Today I asked the following question here:
Domain of multiplication operator
As it turned out, it was a foolish question on my part. I had made a silly mistake. Should I delete it now because future ...

See this post
It seems to me that this post belongs to a "list" of posts from new users that are quite "suspect".
They iterate the request for help adding details to the question without much sense....

I think this question should have been on hold until OP had shown he/she has put some efforts. All they have done is ask to math.SE instead of trying to solve it. I am appalled that many people have ...

I recently tried asking a soft question which was entitled "Which mathematical ideas most influenced the way you think?", which was closed.
One the one hand, I really think this question is on topic, ...

This question (source (code) of second revision) is written in bizarre obfuscated code. I am referring to the code, not to what you see when you read the question. One cannot help suspect some kind of ...

I have been trying to solve a question about modified Takagi functions. I couldn't do it so I asked this question here some time ago. First, I included all my work and thoughts but because I didn't ...

I want to discuss this question. It was closed, re-opened, then closed again. The close reason is "off-topic", and I want to ask if it really is off topic. The question itself basically asks Can we ...

I asked a question on main about mathematical interestingness of statements with the intent of finding a heuristic or formal theory that attempts to define mathematical interestingness. I included one ...

After this question was put on hold, I proposed an edit (which was accepted), clarifying what was presumably the OP's intended meaning. Given that the edit was more than 24 hrs ago, is it normal for ...

Why was my answer to this meta question deleted by Moderator Alexander Gruber?
I believe it has no proper reason to be deleted.
Since it was deleted by a moderator, nobody except the moderators can ...

I was helping Sadache with his question Function to predict processing service overload
After giving some hints of things he needed to look into before the question could even be answered . I decided ...

https://math.stackexchange.com/q/790266/79539 was thought of as "off-topic", but the idea is based it on and supported by Mathematics and Law School?. Hence I'm wondering if we can please reopen the ...

I came across this question:
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/794209/twin-prime-conjecture-resolution-by-using-a-prime-number-finding-algorithm
I cannot make my mind about this thing. On one ...

Is https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/762121/can-someone-check-my-reduction-of-power-work
an allowed question?
The question is an image not in text
- the image can be removed at some time and ...

So this topic has been discussed multiple times on Meta. I am posting this to report a specific incident. This homework question was deleted by its author shortly after an answer was posted. Yes, the ...

I asked this question:https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/732370/what-do-we-mean-by-number-of-things. I do not know why it is downvoted. I asked in my comment why the silent downvotes but none ...

Is edit #3 on this post a valid edit?
It doesn't seem to make much sense to me; the OP wasn't actually quoting that paragraph from anywhere. The editor left the comment "Highlighting", but that doesn'...

I noticed that this problem was marked "off-topic". I've looked at many other questions about being "off-topic" but haven't gotten a satisfactory answer from any of them, which is why I chose to ask ...

There was a question here about how one can justify that integration does indeed give the area under a curve. Specifically, the OP brought up this image. The OP was troubled that even though Riemann ...

I recently posted a question about number theory on math.stackexchange. Here's the question:
Prove that, if $2^{2^j} a + 1$ divides $c^{2^j}+1$ for fixed integers $a,c$ and all nonnegative integers ...